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One should also remember the Virgil Solis cards, which were added to the French Tarot deck of Catelin Geofroy 1557. Virgil Solis used animals as suits. Master PW, who worked also for Maximilian in the years around 1496, used at his round cards also animals. Before Master PW the Master of the playing...

Hi Huck, welcome back - hope everything OK with you? Deletre (very rare name, second most often also in Nord) http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Deletre&submit=Valider&client=cdip I wondered if it is a variation of Parisian cardmakers Delaistre - Delaistre has the most appea...

The outfit and theme (unicorn) is somehow similar to the Tarot de Paris ... http://a-tarot.eu/p/jan-11/viev/1-2-swords.jpg This was similar to the German deck made for the wedding of the daughter of Emperor Maximilian with the Spanish prince (1496). Before she was educated in Franceas the Future wif...

Name research: Payen, Deletre and Vieville Payen (most often in French departement Nord) http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=payen&submit=Valider&client=cdip Deletre (very rare name, second most often also in Nord) http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Del...

hi Robert, for the outfit of the Forum. I think, it's much too white. I think, one get's a headache with the time. I think, the pictures suffer on this background, they lose some of their intensity. It seems, that there is less text at the monitor, as it had been there before. That's bad, one loses ...

The statistic of extant documents tells us, that there was something called Trionfi cards since at least September 1440. But there was not much in the 1440s, at least as far the documents are considered. The begin of a bigger wave of Trionfi card productions (Giovanni di Domenico) happens end of 144...

Hi Huck. yes life takes over away from pleasures as one gets older. Tarot is never far away from my life and interest. Thanks for the contact. Now I saw that on trionfi that the D'Este had a printing press. So I guess they must have had an outlet for selling what ever they printed. What I am intere...

... .-) ... nice to hear from you. We have, that 2 silk dealers also traded with playing cards, and that these records were left in some account books between 1431-1460. Franco Pratesi researched that: more than 500 records and a good part of the records also relate to Trionfi cards. The prices rela...

As the translation by Michael Howard from recent articles of Franco Pratesi hide in various forum contributions, it might be good to have a thread, where one can find them. Date and numbers refer to the articles in Italian language at the page http://naibi.net This first post will be occasionally u...